Technology to Improve Instruction
• A Vision for
Technology … and affording it
• North Carolina’s
Instructional
Improvement
System
Draft - 29 February 2012
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Updates to this Presentation

• Teachers can have better information to tailor instruction.
Shorter assessments that zero in on student performance faster (think: accurately determine where a child is on a progression of learning).
• Classrooms will be richer and more engaging environments.
Use of media in classroom experiences (think: first-hand historical accounts via video or online literary journals).
• Students can connect to the world.
Students will be able to engage in learning experiences with experts and learners who are not in their class…or even their country.
• Digital learning offers new opportunities for individualization.
Modular content can be provided based on need; progress can be easily monitored; small- and large-scale collaboration is easier (think: North
Carolina’s development of an Instructional Improvement System).

3 Key Categories
Instruction
Application Support
Interconnections
Services Infrastructure
Things
Digital Devices Tools
Enter
Enter
Enter

% used in this graphic are meant to start a conversation about partnerships and responsibility to get to technology-enabled classrooms for all students in 2014-15.
and we can afford it through Partnership
Instruction
Application Support
Interconnections
Services Infrastructure
Things
Digital Devices Tools
50%
LEA
50%
State
Currently
Shared
Partnership
80%
LEA
20%
State

% used in this graphic are meant to start a conversation about partnerships and responsibility to get to technology-enabled classrooms for all students in 2014-15.
Services Infrastructure
Estimated
Interconnections
Services Infrastructure
Current
Responsibility for
Interconnections
Services Infrastructure
80%
Future Goal
Responsibility for
Interconnections
Services Infrastructure
20%
LEA
LEA
Currently
Shared
Partnership
20%
State
80%
State

% used in this graphic are meant to start a conversation about partnerships and responsibility to get to technology-enabled classrooms for all students in 2014-15.
We can afford it through Partnership
Instruction
Application Support
50% from LEA
• Priorities
• Instructional Technology
Support Staff
• Professional Development
50% from State
• Support with Cost
Allocation and Resources
• Professional Development
• Instructional Improvement
System
Ensuring pressing Enter helps students learn
Interconnections
Services Infrastructure
20% from LEA
• Local Networks
• Technical Directors
80% from State
• Network to Schools
• Engineering Support
{DPI and MCNC}
• Financial Support
• NC Education Cloud and
Shared Learning
Infrastructure
• E-rate
Making sure that pressing Enter always works
Things
Digital Devices Tools
80% from LEA
• Priorities
• Fund Identification
• Partnerships
•
Companies
• Other LEAs
• Foundations
20% from State
• Support with Cost
Allocation and Resources
• Enable Partnerships
•
Something on which to press
Enter

Instructional Improvement System
Why – How – What -- When
▲ ▲
Why
• Increased access to high quality resources for all
• Provision of timely and relevant information and data

Instructional Improvement System
Why – How – What -- When
▲
Learner Profiles Clear picture of your students and their needs
Instructional Resources
Tools for you like unit plans, online learning objects and media-enriched tasks
Assessment Tools,
Items and Strategies
Interim and diagnostic assessment items for use in your classrooms; formative best-practices
PD Resources and
Management
Resources to improve and reflect on your practice and tools to manage your professional development
Dashboards and
Analytics
Tools to display, understand and use data to drive instruction and professional development choices

Instructional Improvement System
Why – How – What -- When
▲
Developing this Spring 2012
RFP Issue
SLI Pilot
July
2012
Review
Proposals
Feb – March
Becoming Available
April – June
Determine
Partner
July – August
IIS Pilot
Early 2013 
Phased-In
Roll out
Starting
2013-14
School Year
Design and
Build
August 